Combined anticreeping rail and tie-plate.



B. B. BETTS, COMBINED ANTICREEPINGRAIL AND TIE PLATE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.23. I916, 1,240,406. Patented Sept. 18, 1917 2 SHEETS-SHEET I.

B. BETTS.

. COMBINED ANTICREEPING' RAIL AND THE PLATE.

APPLICATION FILED: SEPT. 23, 9| 6.

Patented Sept. 18, 1917.

13,240,406; 2 SHEETSSHEET 2.

5 I I I i w n f9 i ,4 4 i I' 1 Lil BENJ A MIN B. BE'TTS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

COMBINED ANTICBEEPI'NG- RAIL AND TIE-PLATE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented SGPlL'lSflQlY.

Application filed'September 23, 1916. Serial No. 121,853.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit'lmown thatl, BENJAMIN B. Bn'r'rs, a citizen of" the United States, and resident of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Anticreeping Railsfland Tie- Plates, of which the following is. aspecification containing afull, clear, andeXact description,'reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to i-mprovements'in combined anti-creepingrails and tie plates, andhas for its object'the construction of a rail and tiezplate which conjointly act. to

prevent creeping of the rails incidentto the movements'of *rollingstook, as well as to prevent relative lateral llIOVQD'lGIllZS of the plate and rail when the spikes "haVebeen partially lifted and as well as to preserve uniformity in thespacing of the ties.

Witli the above objects'in view, my invention consists in certain novel detailsiofthe construction and "arrangement of parts which willbe hereinafter fully, clearly, -and concisely set are; in my specification,

pointed out in my claims, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in\vhich- Figure 1' is a plan view showing'a short length of a rail constructed according to my invention'resting upon a tie plate'constructed according to my invention, the tie and spikes not being shown.

Fig. 2 is "an end elevation ofthe rail length andtie plate, as shown by "Fig; 1'.

Fig.3 is a perspective view of the rail length and'tie plate, shown-inFigs. 1 and 2. Fig. dis aplan View of 'a'modified form of rail resting upon tie plates of modified "Figq5i's a'plan'view of a rail length'co'nstruct'ed according to my invention and as illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, and 3, resting "upon a modified"form of tie p'late, having a -fillet shaped tocoi1form with the margin of the rail base flange.

Referring' by numerals to the accompanying drawings, 6. designates a .rail of ordinary construction, exceptfortliejinargin T 'of'its'one railbase flange, which as clearly shown in Figs. "1' an'd33 is corrugated, undulated or provided with alternated depres- -.sionsa nd'projections 8 and 9 respectively.

The reference numeral 10 designates'the body portion of my improved tie plate, whieh'is of substantially rectangular oblong shape, the major portion 1 of its uppermost the spacing *of the face constituting-a rail seat, extending transversely of the body portion 10,'paralleling the minor axis thereofja'nd upstanding from the uppermost face of the body are the shoulders'll "and "12, which are laterally spaced a distance substantially that of the width of the rail base flanges, so that the tie plate, as a whole, may be easily applied to the rail with the shoulders 11 and 12 in=snug contact with the margins of the rail basefianges.

It isto be observed here that the margin of one rail base "flange is as common, a straight margin, and that the corresponding 01 companion shoulder of the tie'plate has its 'm'a'rgi'n straight to "conform with the straight margin of the said rail base flange, and that the opposite rail base'llange is corrugated, undulated or provided'with the depressions 8 and projections 9 and further that the corresponding or companion shoulder 12 of'the tie platehas its inner margin corrugated, undulated and provided with the depressions 13 andp'rojections "14 t0 fit the depressions 8 and projections 9 ofthe rail base flange 7.

Formed through the ti'e plate and inter seeting the shoulders 11 and 12'a1'e the spike openings 15.

Arising from each of said shoulders 11 and '12, and preferably i between the spike openings, is-an upstanding lug'16, on the shoulden-l1, and 17 on theshoulder 12. The projectionl l of the shouldcrlfz forms the inside face of the lug 17.

described, andsaid depressions in the rail.

base flange at regular intervals longitudinally df the rail the depressions in the rail base flange form a means for'accurately' and uniformly spacing the ties and tie plates, for isobvions that withsaid depressions at regular intervals longitudinally of the rail, tie plates and ties is greatly facilitated. After the rail has thus been placed upon the plates, spikes are driven through the plates and into the ties, with their heads overlapping "the rail base flanges, which spikes serve to hold the plates against movement relative to the ties and the rails against vertical. movements relative to the plates. It will be observed further that by reason of the undulated or corrugated margin of the rail base flange: and a like margin of the one shoulder of the tie plate, that with the tie plate securely fastened -to the tie the rail is prevented from creeping .or lengthwisemovements in either directionflange margin, but instead is provided with depressions 19, which are spaced longitudinally of the rail distances corresponding to the desired spacing of ties (ties from center to center have an average spacing of appi'okimately twenty inches) and in .my drawing Fig. 4 I haveshow-n the depressions I9 spaced longitudinally of the rail about twenty inches from the centerof one depression to the center ofthe next adjacent de- Sp cing of the'depressions. v f

n g. 4 the tie plates are in all particu pression'. It is to be understood, of 5 course, that-I'do not wish to beunderstood aslimiting, myself to any particular longitudinal lars like the plates illustrated by Figs. 1, 2 was and which I have described in detail. In'Fig. 5 the rail 20 is in all particulars like the rail shown in Figsgl, 2 and 3, havingits one base flange continuously fcorrugated. The tie plate 21 in this figureof the drawing has its'body portion constructed substantially the same as the-plates illustrated by the other figures,the diflerence in 3 structures being that the plate of Fig. 5has a "greater length than the other plates and its shoulders 22 and 23 are spaced distances greater than the widtlrof a railbaseflange,

in order to provide for the introduction between the one shoulder andthe corrugated margin of the rail base flange, an insert or fillet 24: whose lateral margins areshaped to flt the. shoulder 23 and the corrugated margin of the rail base -This platehasspike open ngs 25 intersecting its straight shoulder 2 h s QPPQ ite sh er 2 is imp iorate as in theform shown in the other fig uresandinstead there are spikej openings 26 through the fillet 24; and through the body l of the tie plate removed laterally from the shoulder and in; registration with the splke openings in the fillet. While the construction of'this rail anti-creeping device is slightly different from the other forms shown, 1ts function is thesame...

his to be observed that the spike openings 26' (as shown in Fig. 5). are spaeed fromthe rail-bearing seat so that a portion of the body of the fillet or the element of the plate constituting the rail shoulder for abutment lies between the spike opening and the margin of the-fillet shoulder or abutment, which is engageableby a rail margin resting on the -t1e plate.

By this expedient; that is, by having metal between the spike opening and the margin of the rail base flange, the rail is prevented from wearing the shankf'of the spike .neXt' its 'headyas is common; It is to be understood, of course, that'the spacing of the spike opening from the rail seat allows the head of the spike to restupon the'upper face of the rail base flange. The same effect, that is prevention" of; fthroat-cutting, 01" the spikes, is'accomplished by the-arrangement shown in Figs. 1 and 3 where the spikeopen ings 15 are disposed so as to come opposite the crests of the undulated edgeof the" rail, that is to say opposite the parts ofsuch edge that extend laterally farthest from the longi- 1 tudinal central plane of the rail. With this arrangement any longitudinal movementof the rail does. not tend to shear and cut the spike, because suchrmovement' brings opposite the spike a part of the rail-flange that recedesfrom the spike face. f

Having thus describedmy invention what I claim as new therein and desire to secure. by Letters Patent of the U (S; therefor is: V

1. A rail anti-creeper comprising a rail having a continuous straight edge flange throughout its length and a uniformly corrugated flange throughoutitsflength, atie plate provided with .a rail-bearing seat, a rail-bearing shoulder atone end oit said tie plate adjacent said seat,a corrugated 'rail-" bearing abutment arrangedat theother end of said tie plate adjacent said seat,'sai d abutment provided With spike openings passing therethrough and through the tie plate and disposed at such distancelaterally from the longitudinal central plane of the 1 0 rail thatany longitudinal movement thereof will not cause the'corrugated edge to engage with the shanks of the spikes; whereby the shank of a spike adaptedto be seatedina r spike opening is protected from contact With the corrugated edge ofthe .rail flange, therebypreventingshearing-ofthe spike shank by the corr'ugatededge of the railflangeL '2. A rail anti-creeper comprising arail having a continuous straight flangethroughout its length and a corrugated" flange throughout its length, a plate provided j withla rail-bearing seat, a rail bearing abut mentvat one end of said platea-djacent saidt'i seat and having spike iopenings formed therethrough, 'a: corrugated rail-bearing abutment arrangedat the other endof said tie plate adjacent saidrail bearing' seat and provided withspike openings removed from the corrugated edge of said abutment, whereby the shank of a spike adapted to be seated in said opening is protected from contact with the corrugated edge of the rail flange and the head of said spike is adapted to span the joint between the corrugated edge of the abutment and thecorrugated edge of the flange of the rail.

3. In combination with a rail having a base flange whose margin is formed other than straight, a tie plate having rail-bearing elements for engagement and shaped to conform with the margins of the rail base flanges and there being a spike opening formed through the tie plate removed from the engaging portions of a rail base flange and a rail bearing element a distance suflicient to cause part of the plate body to stand between the margin of the rail base flange and a spike driven through the opening in the plate, but not a distance preventing the head of the spike from overlying the rail base flange.

i. A tie plate having a removable railbearing element upstanding from the rail seat of the plate and having a spike opening formed through the rail-bearing element, laterally removed from the rail seat, whereby the rail-bearing element will prevent the base flange of a rail from engaging and wearing a spike seated in the opening, with its head overlapping the base flange of the rail.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BENJAMIN B. BETTS.

WVitnesses:

R. G. ORWIG, MINNIE E. KLEE.

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Washington, D. G. 

